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Title: Hepatica 2015
Post by: kalle-k.dk on December 22, 2014, 12:15:22 PM
My first Hepatica with full open flowers, 2014-15 season. It is one of my Hepatica henryi fl.pl. almost white, there will come a little pink in the flower later.
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Post by: ichristie on December 22, 2014, 01:36:05 PM
Hello, looks really interesting look forward to seeing your other Hepaticas,  cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Post by: Rimmer de Vries on December 22, 2014, 01:50:32 PM
nice to see hepatica blooming so early.
how warm or cold are you keeping this plant, day- nights?

thank you

Rimmer
Title: Re: Hepatica 2015
Post by: kalle-k.dk on December 22, 2014, 03:32:57 PM
I grow them in a cold greenhouse with doors and windows open, so the temperature is like outside +2-5 degress. When the temperature get lower I hold the temperature about 0 to +2 degress. 
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Post by: julibrissin on January 18, 2015, 07:18:02 PM
I have a good news. I am starting Hepatica fans. Last year, managed to sow seeds. I brought my film, and are now looking at the ground. I was very surprised because I saw radicle begins to grow. I hope everything will be fine. Unfortunately, only a few colors in it. Japonica variety is blue.
Then I make sure photo. Please, if you have good advice, you can help me. I would like, if I would own seedling.
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Post by: julibrissin on January 18, 2015, 08:14:29 PM
Hepatica seed
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Post by: julibrissin on January 19, 2015, 05:39:28 AM
https://scontent-a-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10150700_771203139579340_8084039616529510512_n.jpg?oh=21498a3b58510984335b1b304f54e946&oe=5527B3CD
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Post by: annew on January 19, 2015, 06:54:52 AM
Hi Julibrissin and welcome! I hope I understand.
If this is your hepatica seed now, then you must plant it. Seeds 5-10mm apart. Good luck!
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Post by: julibrissin on January 19, 2015, 07:04:53 AM
So I threw away. This is very dense? I land it 1-2 cm
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Post by: annew on January 19, 2015, 11:15:52 AM
1-2cm apart is fine.
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Post by: Michael J Campbell on January 19, 2015, 06:36:33 PM
Hepatica japonica azahizuru
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Post by: angie on January 20, 2015, 09:23:09 PM
Hepatica japonica azahizuru

So lovely Michael

Angie  :)

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Post by: David Nicholson on January 21, 2015, 08:25:08 AM
Seconded, lovely stuff Michael.
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Post by: Michael J Campbell on January 21, 2015, 08:28:33 AM
 :) :) :)
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Post by: fleurbleue on January 21, 2015, 01:11:45 PM
 Third ! so cute  :D
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Post by: KK-Ann Arbor on January 21, 2015, 03:28:00 PM
Hepatica japonica azahizuru

Nice, Michael.  So were the ones you posted on Jan. 1 in the Alpine section, too!

Koko
Title: Re: Hepatica 2015
Post by: kalle-k.dk on January 22, 2015, 03:10:36 PM
Michael; your Hepatica japonica Azahizuru look fantastic, I wait for my Hepatica japonica only a few have small flowers. Today one of my Hepatica yamatutai start the flowering.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2015
Post by: kalle-k.dk on January 24, 2015, 11:29:08 AM
Hepatica nobilis x63-4 and Hepatica nobilis x63-20 Two of my nobilis seedlings that have fillede flowers
Title: Re: Hepatica 2015
Post by: kalle-k.dk on January 24, 2015, 11:29:50 AM
Hepatica transsilvanica 'Schwanensee'
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Post by: kalle-k.dk on January 24, 2015, 11:31:17 AM
Hepatica japonica seedlings, first time flowering 2014 and now again in 2015
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Post by: WimB on February 06, 2015, 08:56:27 AM
Some Hepatica japonica seedlings flowering for the first time.
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Post by: WimB on February 06, 2015, 08:57:11 AM
Some more...
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Post by: WimB on February 06, 2015, 09:00:26 AM
And a few others which I received from a very generous friend.

Hepatica japonica 'Setuen' x 'Tyousyu'
Hepatica japonica 'Izumo'
a nameless form
Hepatica japonica 'Maisen'
Title: Re: Hepatica 2015
Post by: Maggi Young on February 06, 2015, 10:34:02 AM
Wow! A colourful selection, Wim.  You will be very pleased with those making their cheerful flowers now.   8)
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Post by: annew on February 08, 2015, 10:48:11 PM
Very nice to see the hepatica season starting up with some beauties shown here. Mine are very slow in waking up!
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Post by: angie on February 14, 2015, 06:39:35 PM
Who wants a dozen red roses when you see these cute little hepaticas  ;D

Angie  :)
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Post by: julibrissin on February 21, 2015, 02:22:20 PM
For me this is a booming.
(http://www.kepfeltoltes.hu/thumb/150221/P1420666_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg)
Title: Re: Hepatica 2015
Post by: annew on February 22, 2015, 07:10:16 PM
Three clones from the cross Hepatica transylvanica Lilacina x japonica(bright pink). I'm hoping they will divide as easily as H. transylvanica. They have the marbled leaves of the japonica parent.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2015
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on March 04, 2015, 06:08:33 PM
This seedling of Hepatica nobilis var japonica gives me lots of flowers (and pleasure) each year !

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Post by: Maggi Young on March 04, 2015, 07:24:08 PM
Fine plant, Luc.
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Post by: johngennard on March 06, 2015, 07:13:19 PM
That's a very nice seedling Luc,I have never had a bi-colour out of hundreds.Was it a specific cross or random ?

Here are some that I hope you will enjoy.They are not quite the harbingers of Spring as that accolade belongs to the aconites/snowdrops but they must be the jewels of the Spring.
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Post by: johngennard on March 06, 2015, 07:15:39 PM
cont'd

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Post by: johngennard on March 06, 2015, 07:18:28 PM
cont'd
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Post by: johngennard on March 06, 2015, 07:20:38 PM
finally

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Post by: Peppa on March 07, 2015, 05:54:19 AM
Wow, these are so impressive! How do you manage to keep such large clumps healthy in pots? Is there a special trick you could share? :)
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Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on March 07, 2015, 08:04:12 AM
That's a very nice seedling Luc,I have never had a bi-colour out of hundreds.Was it a specific cross or random ?

Here are some that I hope you will enjoy.They are not quite the harbingers of Spring as that accolade belongs to the aconites/snowdrops but they must be the jewels of the Spring.

Thanks for the praise, John.  Coming from you it's most flattering !  ;)
I'm afraid I only had the merit of buying the seedling from Robin White at the Kent AGS show a number of years ago...  :D  so I cannot help with further information.

A wonderful array of plants you're showing us here yourself though... simply stunning !!
Title: Re: Hepatica 2015
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on March 07, 2015, 04:10:18 PM
Took some time to make some close-ups earlier on ...  :D


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Post by: Matt T on March 07, 2015, 05:02:56 PM
That's a lovely image of your flowers, Luc. You could almost say the one at top left was red!  :o
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Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on March 07, 2015, 06:04:27 PM
It'svery close to being red Matt ! ;D
Title: Re: Hepatica 2015
Post by: KK-Ann Arbor on March 08, 2015, 04:09:00 AM
It is just lovely to see the images of beautiful Hepaticas shared by forumists.

I am again amazed at John's collection, particularly the size of their clumps.  I almost chuckled at Peppa's question, since we asked John similar questions last year also.

What ever the magic trick he uses, my jaw drops every time I see his collection.

We switch to summer time this weekend in the US, but here in South Eastern Michigan, it will be more than a few weeks for Hepaticas to start moving.

Koko
Title: Re: Hepatica 2015
Post by: Peppa on March 08, 2015, 06:14:25 AM
I am again amazed at John's collection, particularly the size of their clumps.  I almost chuckled at Peppa's question, since we asked John similar questions last year also.

Now that I think about it, I may have been the one who asked John the same question last year... :) But the large healthy clumps always leave me thinking the same thing! ;D
Title: Re: Hepatica 2015
Post by: Peppa on March 11, 2015, 05:10:06 AM
Hepatica americana is blooming in my garden.

(http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1218/5581325/22015176/410952049.jpg)
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Post by: Anne Repnow on March 11, 2015, 07:17:50 AM
Stunning, stunning display, John!!!

And, Peppa, a beautiful clump in a lovely natural setting.
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Post by: Maggi Young on March 11, 2015, 09:52:06 AM
Now that I think about it, I may have been the one who asked John the same question last year... :) But the large healthy clumps always leave me thinking the same thing! ;D

 With  good plants like the H. americana you showed in your latest post - I think I should be asking you the same question!  8)
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Post by: KK-Ann Arbor on March 11, 2015, 01:57:49 PM
Yes, indeed!  Nice clump, Peppa.

Koko
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Post by: kalle-k.dk on March 11, 2015, 03:55:53 PM
Hepatica x euroasiatica
 'Professor Friederich Hildebrand'
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Post by: annew on March 11, 2015, 06:02:16 PM
Very pretty, Karl.
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Post by: ichristie on March 11, 2015, 06:54:43 PM
Hello all the pictures of these Hepaticas are wonderful our season has just started with a few last week quite late but as we had snow over the weekend and on Tuesday little wonder they keep their heads down a few pictures, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Post by: ichristie on March 11, 2015, 06:55:47 PM
A few more, Ian
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Post by: johngennard on March 12, 2015, 07:10:20 PM
Sorry that I have been so late in replying but after posting the pictures my computer crashed and I have only just got it repaired today having lost everything and with no back-up.There's a salutary lesson to all.

However,thanks for your comments everybody,they are most gratifying.There is no secret,I rarely re-pot and never feed.I think they thrive on neglect and it would appear that they do not like being messed about.
It works for me.
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Post by: Maggi Young on March 12, 2015, 08:12:43 PM
Sincere sympathies on the loss of your data, John.
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Post by: WimB on March 12, 2015, 08:23:16 PM
This normal Hepatica nobilis caught my eye in the garden today, while typing behind my computer I saw this blue cloud constantly from the corner of my eye through the window and it was more than distracting....
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Post by: johnw on March 12, 2015, 08:44:48 PM
and I have only just got it repaired today having lost everything and with no back-up.There's a salutary lesson to all.

We've all been in that boat John.  I can highly recommend Apple's Time Machine  - edit with Time Capsule (the hardware) - as a backup drive.  We keep the - edit Time Capsule  - in the basement and it backs up wirelessly.  Why the basement?  It's hidden in case the computer is stolen, you don't want the backup stolen along with it!

I do save forum pix with the forumist'sname attached and 80 have your name attached if you'd like them emailed or burnt and mailed over.

johnw  - a wretched cold day here.
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Post by: johngennard on March 13, 2015, 10:36:07 AM
Thats very kind of you John but my posted pics.are of the least concern as they are repeatable.My main concern is the loss of family pictures over the last ten years that can never be replaced but many thanks all the same.

Any more information on the time machine ?
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Post by: johnw on March 13, 2015, 11:41:17 AM
Thats very kind of you John but my posted pics.are of the least concern as they are repeatable.My main concern is the loss of family pictures over the last ten years that can never be replaced but many thanks all the same.  Any more information on the time machine ?

Sorry to confuse John.  Time Machine is actually the Apple programme for backing up with the hardware called Time Caspsule.  You can set the interval at which you want things backed up, we have it set to do so every hour, it does so without any interference or slow down.

Ours must be the "old" version as it looks like this:   http://gizmodo.com/345045/apple-time-capsule-server-for-wireless-time-machine-backups (http://gizmodo.com/345045/apple-time-capsule-server-for-wireless-time-machine-backups)

Time Capsule now looks like this:  https://www.apple.com/ca/airport-time-capsule/ (https://www.apple.com/ca/airport-time-capsule/)

AlanB might be able to explain how with Microsoft products. Beyond my comprehension: http://techsupport.foreverwarm.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Using-Time-Capsule-with-a-Windows-PC.pdf (http://techsupport.foreverwarm.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Using-Time-Capsule-with-a-Windows-PC.pdf)


john
Title: Re: Hepatica 2015
Post by: Maggi Young on March 14, 2015, 03:57:43 PM
In YT's  photo report from the Hepatica show and sale in Tokyo last month, quite a few of us were enchanted  by the yellow varieties shown - here are some really lovely examples, grown by Chris Vermeire in Belgium

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Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on March 14, 2015, 04:08:53 PM
They are fabulous, Maggi !  :o :o :o
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Post by: Gunilla on March 14, 2015, 04:26:09 PM
Absolutely gorgeous all of them!  I rather like how the four bracts kind of frame the flower on the first one.
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Post by: Maggi Young on March 14, 2015, 04:45:55 PM
I love them - they are beyond fabulous for me!  8) 8) 8)
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Post by: annew on March 16, 2015, 06:59:11 PM
 :P :P wow!
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Post by: annew on March 16, 2015, 07:01:34 PM
I have my first double/filled seedling!
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Post by: johnstephen29 on March 16, 2015, 07:05:31 PM
Beautiful hepatica Anne
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Post by: Maggi Young on March 16, 2015, 07:09:44 PM
I have my first double/filled seedling!
.... and it's already had a perm.... so cute!
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Post by: Gunilla on March 17, 2015, 12:39:22 PM
Congratulations Anne! I like the curly look.
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Post by: Herman Mylemans on March 17, 2015, 12:46:36 PM
I have my first double/filled seedling!
Very nice Anne. Is it nobilis or something else?
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Post by: annew on March 17, 2015, 05:51:19 PM
It is a japonica (seedling with petaloid stamens) x pubescens (Tenjinbai).
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Post by: Gunilla on March 19, 2015, 02:28:03 PM
The hepatica season has started here too  ;D

1. Hepatica transsilvanica 'Alba'
2. Hepatica nobilis  - dark blue seedling
3. Hepatica nobilis - pink seedling
4. Hepatica transsilvanica 'Karpatenkrone'
5. Hepatica nobilis -  white seedling
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Post by: Gunilla on March 19, 2015, 02:34:14 PM
and a few more

1. H. japonica ? - seedling
2. H. nobilis plena
3. H. maxima
4. Hepatica x schlyteri


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Post by: KK-Ann Arbor on March 19, 2015, 05:08:36 PM
Very nice, Gunilla!

How cold do you get in the wintr?  Do you keep your Hepatica outside in winter?

Koko
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Post by: Gunilla on March 19, 2015, 05:59:25 PM
Thanks Koko. I keep them outside in the winter. Some of them planted in the ground and some in pots in a coldframe.  Sometimes it gets really cold -15 or more but only for shorter periods. The two last winters have been very mild with hardly any frost at all.

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Post by: annew on March 19, 2015, 06:50:26 PM
Lovely filled blue nobilis, Gunilla.
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Post by: kalle-k.dk on March 20, 2015, 03:01:34 PM
Congratulations Anne! It looks great. Beautiful plants Gunilla, right now there are many of our Hepatica which bloom and there are also some good new. On the pictures it is a new H. japonica from this year.
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Post by: annew on March 20, 2015, 07:07:02 PM
VERY full!
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Post by: Botanica on March 25, 2015, 06:16:39 PM
Hepatica nobilis starting for divide

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10406900_1632437660334047_4260441474720354918_n.jpg?oh=de67d96aa718867e4dd6483cf25c1e72&oe=5571C223&__gda__=1437813018_fb52b6db1b5b028fa033211d71272bae)

And after divide

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/11067866_1633018473609299_8365186243521017561_n.jpg?oh=401a9a9060df7522b802418a6073cecb&oe=55736B92&__gda__=1433394114_67ca3014b69ed78b9b67472a7b5d3fdc)
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Post by: Anne Repnow on March 25, 2015, 07:56:04 PM
I am speechless - such beautiful plants, Anne and Gunilla! Here is my contribution:
H. nobilis 'Blaue Elfe' (I think it is the best as far as contrast is concerned)
H. nobilis 'Schneeflocke' - which has really surprised me. I only planted it last year and this year it has 9 flowers. It seems to be a lot more floriferous than 'Alba Plena'
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Post by: Anne Repnow on March 25, 2015, 08:07:34 PM
These are all plants of the 'Forest Hybrid' series of H. nobilis var. japonica 
All were planted out in the garden and have survived the frosts of winter for several years.
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Post by: Gunilla on March 25, 2015, 10:04:13 PM
On the pictures it is a new H. japonica from this year.
It looks like a sweet little cupcake, very tasty  :)

These are all plants of the 'Forest Hybrid' series of H. nobilis var. japonica 
All were planted out in the garden and have survived the frosts of winter for several years.
Interesting to hear that they have survived outside in your garden. I can't grow H. japonica outside, they don't like the winters here.  Maybe there are some hardier species involved in the 'Forest Hybrids' ?
Your 'Schneeflocke is exquisite.
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Post by: Anne Repnow on March 26, 2015, 10:04:25 AM
Gunilla, I can't grow Japanese Hepatica out in the garden, either. (Murdered one and gave up forever...)
But these Forest Hybrids appear to be something else - they are quite hardy. We had -15 C (without snow) and they survived. And - what's more - they are fairly cheap. www.stauden-stade.de (http://www.stauden-stade.de) sells them for about 7 €.

I looked the Forest Hybrids up in Andreas Händel's book. He says that the parentage of these plants is kept secret (by whom he doesn't say). He believes them to be F1 Hybrids between Japanese liverwort and European Hepatica nobilis or H. acutiloba. They are fertile but the offspring have smaller flowers and less intensive colours. He, too, says they are hardy in his garden (in East Germany where it is far colder than where I live).
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Post by: johnstephen29 on March 26, 2015, 05:37:59 PM
Hi I'm still new to hepatica growing so my few plants are not as showery as other plants shown on here, but I've managed to get some into flower. The first is H. Japonica, I got this from the plant stall at cyclamen society stall at wisley, loverly White flowers with what looks like blue stamens. The next is H. Pyrenaica with pinky white flowers and loverly marked foliage.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7588/16315805734_ba3dbfcb5f.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qRLLBq)image (https://flic.kr/p/qRLLBq) by johnstephen29 (https://www.flickr.com/people/126223196@N05/), on Flickr

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7281/16315809064_e2b4ae0c92.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qRLMAQ)image (https://flic.kr/p/qRLMAQ) by johnstephen29 (https://www.flickr.com/people/126223196@N05/), on Flickr
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Post by: Leena on March 27, 2015, 06:59:56 AM
Interesting to hear that they have survived outside in your garden. I can't grow H. japonica outside, they don't like the winters here.  Maybe there are some hardier species involved in the 'Forest Hybrids' ?
Your 'Schneeflocke is exquisite.

That is bad news for me, I have just some H.japonica germinating, and I was going to plant them outside, but perhaps that is not a good idea  :((seeds were bought from Denmark).

I also love 'Schneeflocke', it looks so beautiful!!
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Post by: johnstephen29 on March 27, 2015, 12:33:46 PM
Hi Leena I wouldn't risk it where you are, luckily they grow just as well in the house or greenhouse.
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Post by: Gunilla on March 28, 2015, 08:49:13 AM
Leena, I don't think it is the cold that kills them, more likely it's the alternation of mild and cold spells when the plants have started to grow.  The winters here are often mild and triggers the plants to early growth. Then we usually have really cold periods in February - April, often without any snow for protection. H. transsilvanica and H. nobilis have no problem with the late spring frost but the Japanese hepatica planted outside have all died after a year or two.

John, that's a nice contrast with the blue stamens on your white flower.  I'm also very fond of the marked leaves of H. pyrenaica. This variant of Hepatica nobilis grows well outside here and self seeds a lot and they keep their lovely leaves all through the winter.
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Post by: johnstephen29 on March 28, 2015, 10:32:04 AM
Thanks Gunilla as I said before I an new to hepatica growing, but I am pleased with how my few plants are coming along. I am going to try Pyrenaica outside later see how it goes. I also have a couple of ordinary nobilis growing outside that I got from Jan at green ice nursery in the Netherlands that have started and have loverly blue flowers, I'll post a photo later.
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Post by: Leena on March 28, 2015, 03:06:01 PM
Leena, I don't think it is the cold that kills them, more likely it's the alternation of mild and cold spells when the plants have started to grow.  The winters here are often mild and triggers the plants to early growth. Then we usually have really cold periods in February - April, often without any snow for protection. H. transsilvanica and H. nobilis have no problem with the late spring frost but the Japanese hepatica planted outside have all died after a year or two.

Thank you Gunilla.  :) I will try to find a sheltered spot for them (and keep some in pots just in case) where they would not start to grow too early and where there is some protection from frosts. Also here H.nobilis is very hardy and don't mind freezing nights even after it is in bud.
Hepatica nobilis is now almost flowering here, when the next sunny day comes they will open their flowers.
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Post by: Leena on April 04, 2015, 08:00:38 AM
Gunilla, I can't grow Japanese Hepatica out in the garden, either. (Murdered one and gave up forever...)
But these Forest Hybrids appear to be something else - they are quite hardy. We had -15 C (without snow) and they survived. And - what's more - they are fairly cheap. www.stauden-stade.de (http://www.stauden-stade.de) sells them for about 7 €.

I looked the Forest Hybrids up in Andreas Händel's book. He says that the parentage of these plants is kept secret (by whom he doesn't say). He believes them to be F1 Hybrids between Japanese liverwort and European Hepatica nobilis or H. acutiloba. They are fertile but the offspring have smaller flowers and less intensive colours. He, too, says they are hardy in his garden (in East Germany where it is far colder than where I live).

This is very interesting, because last week end there was a big plant show in Stockholm, Sweden, and my sister went there and brought back a souvenier for me: White Forest Hybrid-hepatica.  :) It doesn't flower this year, but I'm very excited about it especially in light of what Bolinopsis wrote.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2015
Post by: Herman Mylemans on April 05, 2015, 11:33:25 AM
A double Hepatica nobilis found in Gotland (Sweden).
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Post by: Leena on April 05, 2015, 01:53:48 PM
How beautiful double H.nobilis. :)
You  have good soil for it to flower so much.
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Post by: annew on April 06, 2015, 08:03:22 PM
A wonderful form!
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Post by: Gunilla on April 08, 2015, 05:11:12 PM
A double Hepatica nobilis found in Gotland (Sweden).

That's a beautiful double form.

H. nobilis 'Bergfexing' has started to flower here.
Title: Re: Hepatica 2015
Post by: annew on April 12, 2015, 08:28:28 AM
Very pretty, and it has stamens!
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Post by: Anne Repnow on April 30, 2015, 05:04:38 PM
I was very busy, so I failed to post a photo of H. x euroasiatica 'Röttgesbütteler Röschen' (a name which must have been chosen for maximum difficulties for English speakers) while it was still in bloom. This hybrid increases slowly but is quite hardy.

H. nobilis 'Schneeflocke' has exceeded my expectations in flower size and beauty.
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Post by: annew on May 01, 2015, 05:38:13 PM
A very beautiful double, Anne.
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Post by: Anne Repnow on May 01, 2015, 07:22:35 PM
Thank you  :)
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Post by: Leena on May 06, 2015, 06:40:14 PM
We went last week-end to woods near our house to see Hepatica nobilis flowering and found that they had increased since last year and this was a good year for them. There were different blues and pinks and we found even one white H.nobilis.
My husband had posted couple of pictures of different colored H.nobilis here in the wild in his blog (https://jouniriihela.wordpress.com/2015/05/06/vuokkometsassa/).
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Post by: Maggi Young on May 06, 2015, 07:09:12 PM
My compliments to your husband for those fine photos, Leena.
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Post by: Matt T on May 06, 2015, 08:34:33 PM
Ditto - some lovely photographs there - the cranes in flight, a basking lizard, the mossy forests scenes - all conjure up evocative impressions of your wild places.
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Post by: Anne Repnow on May 06, 2015, 11:39:32 PM
A dream - - - thank you, Leena!
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Post by: Leena on May 07, 2015, 06:42:57 AM
Thanks  :), I will tell him.
I had never before seen white H.nobilis here in the woods, and just before we found these a friend gave me a white one which was originally from a place near west coast where more of it grows in my friends parents property.
This has been a very good year for H.nobilis here, though in the edge of my own garden the deer or wild hares had eaten most of the flowers of H.nobilis. :(
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Post by: johnstephen29 on May 09, 2015, 09:21:25 PM
Loverly photos leena
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Post by: annew on May 10, 2015, 08:02:11 PM
Does anyone have for exchange or for sale (or know who might sell) double blue or double white H. nobilis? Anne, which nursery supplied yours?
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Post by: FrazerHenderson on May 25, 2015, 05:52:35 PM
H. falconeri in thewild
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Post by: Michael J Campbell on November 03, 2015, 01:13:54 PM
A couple Hepatica that can't wait until Spring.

Hepatica jap. kuukai.
Hepatica flora plena rubra.
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Post by: Maggi Young on November 03, 2015, 01:29:15 PM
Mercy, they are in a hurry.  Young plants?
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Post by: Michael J Campbell on November 03, 2015, 05:24:39 PM
 They are two year old divisions Maggi. Quite a few of them are showing flower buds.it must be the weather.

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Post by: Maggi Young on November 03, 2015, 06:23:50 PM
Thanks Michael.    I find such out of season flowers rather fun.
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Post by: Michael J Campbell on November 06, 2015, 05:53:16 PM
Hepatica japonica murasaki shikibu.
Hepatica japonica white.
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Post by: annew on November 06, 2015, 07:43:02 PM
Looking good, Michael!
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Post by: Michael J Campbell on November 09, 2015, 10:31:26 AM
Hepatica nobilis flora plena white. pic taken yesterday.
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Post by: fermi de Sousa on November 09, 2015, 11:33:06 AM
WOW!
Good one, Mr Amazing!
cheers
fermi
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Post by: chris on November 13, 2015, 08:31:03 PM
here not much in flower but the leaves are still beautiful
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Post by: chris on November 13, 2015, 08:33:00 PM
and another 4
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Post by: Maggi Young on November 13, 2015, 09:14:50 PM
Super variations in foliage, Chris.  8)
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Post by: Leena on November 14, 2015, 09:43:06 AM
Wonderful foliage.
What species these are? The one with yellow edges is WOW.
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Post by: chris on November 14, 2015, 04:38:00 PM
these are all Japanese ones exept H6 these are seedlings from H.nobilis 'Cremar'
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Post by: Leena on November 15, 2015, 08:30:51 AM
Thanks. The foliage of H1 is so good that flowers may even spoil it. :)
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Post by: annew on November 17, 2015, 10:29:19 AM
Very beautiful leaves. My hepatica leaves always look very sad at this time of year. How do you keep yours looking so good, Chris?
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Post by: chris on November 18, 2015, 07:36:19 PM
I try to hold the plants in summer not to wet,I remove leafs when I see that they get sick or can others infect. In the garden  the leaves are also not so good,
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Post by: annew on November 18, 2015, 08:45:12 PM
Thank you, Chris.
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Post by: Gabriela on November 19, 2015, 01:40:09 PM
Amazing Hepatica collection Chris!
I do apreciate the foliage in Hepaticas as much as I do the flowers (maybe even a little more...). They provide such a long decor here, before the snow covers all the garden.
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Post by: Gabriela on November 19, 2015, 01:43:37 PM
A few images I took over the wk, taken in the woods so of course the foliage is not very tidy but still...
Hepatica americana - the marbling of the foliage in the wild is as varied as the flower colours.
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Post by: Gabriela on November 19, 2015, 01:48:50 PM
Hepatica acutiloba also has forms with good fall-winter foliage. This is an older image of a pink flower form just starting to intensify in colour.
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Post by: Maggi Young on November 19, 2015, 02:26:32 PM
Great foliage - every one a gem, really.
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Post by: Rick R. on November 20, 2015, 04:07:08 AM
I rarely see much variegation in wild hepatica foliage here in Minnesota.  This often shows up in fall, but I wouldn't call it variegation.  Pic take in mid April in zone 4.
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Post by: Gabriela on November 20, 2015, 11:39:25 PM
I rarely see much variegation in wild hepatica foliage here in Minnesota.  This often shows up in fall, but I wouldn't call it variegation.  Pic take in mid April in zone 4.

Hepatica acutiloba with white flowers usually maintains a green, plain foliage here too - last week image:
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Maybe there is some correlation between the colour of the flowers and leaf 'variegation'? Only in the pink form I saw these kind of foliage (old foliage)
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Post by: Leena on November 25, 2015, 08:47:11 AM
I love the winter foliage of the American Hepaticas. Here I went to the woods to see if there were any difference in the foliage, but most of them were just green. I found one plant with very slight lighter spots in the green, but nothing special.
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Post by: Gabriela on November 25, 2015, 04:29:06 PM
I love the winter foliage of the American Hepaticas. Here I went to the woods to see if there were any difference in the foliage, but most of them were just green. I found one plant with very slight lighter spots in the green, but nothing special.

Not all americanas  :) are getting marbled foliage; mostly the ones on sun exposed slopes. But probably depends on the individuals too. This year I collected seeds and kept them/sowed separate from various a bit more 'particular' clumps. Coincidence makes it that seeds from the marbled H. americana - photo foliage, have germinated without any cold period - first time I've seen this in Hepatica!
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Post by: Michael J Campbell on November 30, 2015, 04:30:03 PM
Hepatica pubescens
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Post by: Maggi Young on November 30, 2015, 07:00:46 PM
Hepatica pubescens

Is this beauty seed raised by you, Michael?
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Post by: Michael J Campbell on December 01, 2015, 02:25:37 PM
No Maggi not mine,  I wish it were though.
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Post by: Michael J Campbell on December 01, 2015, 02:25:59 PM
Hepatica japonica hokutosei
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Post by: ichristie on December 01, 2015, 03:23:52 PM
Hello all thanks  for pictures our Hepaticas are keeping their heads down winter is here heavy snow and frost, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Post by: Maggi Young on December 01, 2015, 05:41:07 PM
Not all americanas  :) are getting marbled foliage; mostly the ones on sun exposed slopes. But probably depends on the individuals too. This year I collected seeds and kept them/sowed separate from various a bit more 'particular' clumps. Coincidence makes it that seeds from the marbled H. americana - photo foliage, have germinated without any cold period - first time I've seen this in Hepatica!

   Always something to puzzle us, with plants, isn't there?   No wonder they are so very interesting!
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Post by: chris on December 17, 2015, 07:27:06 PM
here 2 raised from seed, they will be better when fully open
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Post by: Mark Griffiths on December 18, 2015, 07:04:16 PM
very nice, are they H.japonica seedlings?
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Post by: chris on December 18, 2015, 07:20:23 PM
it are H.japonica seedlings, the mother is a semi double one and the pollen came from a double with some pollen between the flower, I look if I can show the flowers
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Post by: chris on December 18, 2015, 07:46:27 PM
here 2 doubles with some pollen
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Post by: chris on December 18, 2015, 07:51:33 PM
and sometimes it is easier, here H.jap.'Imaizumi', this plant gives single and double flowers and the pollen having a lot of double blood
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Post by: annew on December 20, 2015, 03:14:49 PM
Exciting seedlings, Chris!
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Post by: Michael J Campbell on December 20, 2015, 08:26:45 PM
Hepatica japonica Kosino maboroshi.  Flower starting to open and fully open, two days apart. 
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Post by: Peppa on December 20, 2015, 09:19:58 PM
The season is starting! I'm enjoying everybody's pictures!  :D
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Post by: chris on December 21, 2015, 06:38:48 AM
very nice, Michael, here the first H.nobilis in flower: H.nob.'Tschechei'
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Post by: Maggi Young on December 21, 2015, 11:40:47 AM
here the first H.nobilis in flower: H.nob.'Tschechei'

 My! What a good blue!
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Post by: Gabriela on December 21, 2015, 11:48:36 PM
very nice, Michael, here the first H.nobilis in flower: H.nob.'Tschechei'

I have no words for this H. nobilis! Such a deep mauve shade! (sorry Maggi - this is not blue for me  :)
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Post by: arilnut on December 22, 2015, 04:53:25 AM
I have no words for this H. nobilis! Such a deep mauve shade! (sorry Maggi - this is not blue for me  :)
Hi Gabriela. The seed arrived fine.  But are you color blind?   :)
Mauve (Listeni/ˈmoʊv/, mohv;[3]) is a pale purple color.  Wikipedia
That hep. is blue.

John B
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Post by: Gabriela on December 22, 2015, 05:15:43 PM
Hi Gabriela. The seed arrived fine.  But are you color blind?   :)
Mauve (Listeni/ˈmoʊv/, mohv;[3]) is a pale purple color.  Wikipedia
That hep. is blue.
John B

I have been called colour blind before and I don't mind  ;D I only agree I should have said deep purple (but still not blue for me  :)
By any other colour...a most spendid Hepatica!
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Post by: Maggi Young on December 22, 2015, 05:39:34 PM
 Colour  descriptions and perceptions are as individual as scents, I think!  :D ;D
We're all agreed on how lovely the  flower is, that's unanimous!
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Post by: ichristie on December 22, 2015, 07:42:07 PM
Wonderful pictures thank you all and some very useful information we hope our Hepaticas will awaken soon monsoon rain with hailstones today.
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Post by: chris on December 23, 2015, 07:21:11 PM
thanks for the nice coments,
here another one and I think this one is purple, Gabriela
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Post by: Maggi Young on December 23, 2015, 07:50:38 PM
Perfectly purple!!
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Post by: Gabriela on December 24, 2015, 12:01:57 AM
Perfectly purple!!
As purple as it gets!  :)

thanks for the nice coments,
here another one and I think this one is purple, Gabriela

Thanks a lot, I felt a pinch in my heart! Is there any chance you would share few seeds next year?
I am open to anything - buying, trading for other seeds...I collect H. americana in many blue shades, there is also a form with extra petals if you would like to use it for breeding.
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Post by: kalle-k.dk on December 26, 2015, 04:20:22 PM
2015 was a good year for Hepatica, many flowers and a long flowering season. Also a good year for hybridization/cross and also this year I got a few with filled flowers between my nobilis seedlings. Look forward to the season 2016 and it look to be good, already a few with flowers. Some picture from 2015. The seedling is one of my own nobilis.
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Post by: kalle-k.dk on December 26, 2015, 04:28:04 PM
Some other from 2015. For example my own cross: transsilvanica x yumatutai marble leaf and a seedling (x 63-14).
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Post by: Mark Griffiths on December 26, 2015, 04:48:56 PM
very nice Karl, particularly like the Borgholm one.
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Post by: Gunilla on December 26, 2015, 06:58:07 PM
It's so exciting to see your own crosses, Karl and Gunda. The marbled leaves of transsilvanica x yamatutai are very nice. Wouldn't it be just perfect if they also have the beautiful purple colour of yamatutai on the reverse side ?  I think I can spot that they have :).
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Post by: kalle-k.dk on December 26, 2015, 09:25:42 PM
Yes it have the purple colour.
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Post by: Michael J Campbell on December 27, 2015, 04:55:21 PM
Hepatica nobilis cremar.
Hepatica nobilis white.
Hepatica nobilis blue with blue anthers.
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Post by: Maggi Young on December 27, 2015, 05:07:54 PM
Hard to  get beyond that whitest of the white ! Glorious.
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Post by: chris on December 27, 2015, 08:21:41 PM
here the two again I showed on page 9 but now fully open
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Post by: Gabriela on December 27, 2015, 09:25:54 PM
Some other from 2015. For example my own cross: transsilvanica x yumatutai marble leaf and a seedling (x 63-14).

Nice hybrid! great combination of transsilvanica flower with the yamatutai foliage. Maybe it will also be a good spreader like transs. :)
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Post by: Gabriela on December 27, 2015, 09:30:44 PM
here the two again I showed on page 9 but now fully open

These are very unique, far away from the pom-pom looking doubles (that I'm not very fond of...).
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Post by: Michael J Campbell on December 28, 2015, 12:31:34 PM
Hepatica Japonica asahizuru.
Hepatica japonica kuukai
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Post by: WimB on December 29, 2015, 08:24:21 AM
4 Hepatica japonica seedlings showing promise.
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Post by: Peter Maguire on December 29, 2015, 10:38:13 AM
That cerise coloured flower (3rd from top) is a particularly desirable one.
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Post by: Gabriela on December 29, 2015, 03:07:26 PM
That cerise coloured flower (3rd from top) is a particularly desirable one.

Also my favourite!!!
These amazing colours showing in Hepatica japonica! I wish they would be possible in H. americana.
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Post by: chris on December 29, 2015, 08:19:32 PM
beautiful color Wim, here the first yellow in flower: H.j.'Mandara'
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Post by: Maggi Young on December 29, 2015, 08:24:54 PM
Simply stunning with the  pink anthers, Chris.
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Post by: Gabriela on December 30, 2015, 02:14:44 AM
beautiful color Wim, here the first yellow in flower: H.j.'Mandara'

Such an elegant look on 'Mandara', almost 'dressed up for the opera'...
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Post by: ichristie on December 30, 2015, 08:32:03 AM
All pictures are just magic so many very fine plants, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Post by: Michael J Campbell on December 30, 2015, 10:11:29 AM
Beautiful.
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